•    Renowned British financial magazine decorated Raiffeisen with 14 awards
•    RZB won the “Best bank” award for Austria, RBI is “Best investment bank” in Austria
•    Network banks in Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Kosovo, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Slovakia were also honored in their respective countries

EMEA Finance – the renowned British financial magazine specialized in covering the finance industry in Europe, Middle East and Africa – decorated Raiffeisen with 14 awards in its “Europe Banking Awards” competition. The awards were presented at a ceremony in Vienna last Thursday night.

Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI) won the regional award for Central and Eastern Europe & CIS for its broad offer to private individuals and corporate customers throughout the region. RBI was also honored as “Best investment bank in Austria”, while Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG (RZB), the central institution of the Austrian Raiffeisen Banking Group and core shareholder of RBI, was awarded “Best bank in Austria”.

“These awards acknowledge RBI’s strength in sustainably supporting its 14.9 million customers in CEE & CIS with state-of-the-art services and products. They also reflect RBI Group’s unchanged focus on the region as well as its good performance”, said RBI’s CEO Karl Sevelda.

Apart from Group parents RZB and RBI, the network banks in Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Kosovo, Serbia and Slovakia won the “Best bank” awards for their respective countries, while the network banks in Albania, Romania and Russia were decorated as “Best foreign bank”. Furthermore, RBI was distinguished as “Best investment bank” in Romania and Tatra Asset Management as “Best asset manager” in Slovakia.